Tag: Janet Browne

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Date
September 7, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Disney, England, evolutionary theory, HMS Beagle, Indiana Jones, intelligent evolution, Janet Browne, Labor Day, Michael Flannery, middle class, Robert McCormick, Samuel Stevens}

For Labor Day: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

_{Science & Culture
September 7, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Unlike Darwin, Wallace grew up among the middle class and had to work for a living. This dictated the contours of his life and research. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Disney, England, evolutionary theory, HMS Beagle, Indiana Jones, intelligent evolution, Janet Browne, Labor Day, Michael Flannery, middle class, Robert McCormick, Samuel Stevens}

Alfred Wallace and the Impact of Labor on Evolutionary Theory

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The two founders of evolutionary theory, Wallace and Darwin, came from very different backgrounds. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, childhood, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary psychology, Greek gods, HMS Beagle, Janet Browne, Martin Luther, Misia Landau, Robert Chambers, Samuel Haughton, Stephen Jay Gould, telos, Thomas Huxley, William Wordsworth}

Darwin’s Science and Storytelling

_{Neil Thomas
June 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

17}

His five-year voyage was undoubtedly an eye-opening rite of passage but perhaps not as foundational to his intellectual development as is sometimes proposed. Read More ›

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Date
September 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Disney, England, evolutionary theory, HMS Beagle, Indiana Jones, intelligent evolution, Janet Browne, Labor Day, Michael Flannery, middle class, Robert McCormick, Samuel Stevens}

For Labor Day: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

_{Science & Culture
September 4, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

This year, 2023, marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Benjamin Wiker, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius, eugenics, evolution, forced sterilization, From Darwin to Hitler, Germany, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Heidelberg University, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Jacques Barzun, James Moore, Janet Browne, Joseph Stalin, New Scientist, On the Origin of Species, Paul Johnson, Phillip E. Johnson, Racism, Richard Weikart, Slate, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Thomas Malthus, United States, Victorian England}

Remembering Paul Johnson’s Assessment of Darwin

_{Michael Flannery
January 12, 2023

Evolution, Science

10}

The reviewers that insist this work is “ludicrous,” a “smear,” or a “hatchet job” are wrong; it is none of these. Read More ›

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Date
September 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Disney, England, evolutionary theory, HMS Beagle, Indiana Jones, intelligent evolution, Janet Browne, Labor Day, Michael Flannery, middle class, Robert McCormick, Samuel Stevens}

For Labor Day: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

_{Science & Culture
September 5, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Take a moment to consider the impact of labor on the development of evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 14, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Basil Willey, breeders, Charles Darwin, Emma Darwin, faith, Gaia, George Levine, Janet Browne, literature, metaphor, Mother Nature, natural preservation, nature, On the Origin of Species, paganism, Robert J. Richards, Stephen Jay Gould}

Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”

_{Neil Thomas
July 14, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 7, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, evolution, Greek gods, history, HMS Beagle, Janet Browne, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), Prometheus, South America, Travel}

The Evolution of Natural Selection

_{Neil Thomas
January 7, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

3}

Remarkably, Darwin’s evolutionary ideas did not derive from his empirical observations in the South Seas or anywhere else. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Cornelius Hunter, Darwin’s God, Edinburgh, evolutionary theory, Janet Browne, John Murray, Jonathan Wells, Joseph Hooker, neo-Darwinian synthesis, positivism, theology}

Devil’s Chaplain: Evolution as a “Theological Research Program”

_{Michael Flannery
September 10, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

5}

This stands the standard historiography and received wisdom concerning the development of modern evolutionary theory on its head. Read More ›

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Date
September 5, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Disney, England, evolutionary theory, HMS Beagle, Indiana Jones, intelligent evolution, Janet Browne, Labor Day, Michael Flannery, middle class, Robert McCormick, Samuel Stevens}

For Labor Day Weekend: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

_{Science & Culture
September 5, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

While you are putting away all your white clothing until next summer, take a moment to consider the impact of labor on the development of evolutionary theory. Read More ›